it's true tech news it won't make you happy but this will
wow i wasn't expecting it's happening south korea has passed a
bill into law they'll require apple and google to allow third-party payment
processors on the iOS app store and google play store respectively that
means the two tech giants won't be able to collect the 30 cut they currently
take from the majority of app store purchases and understandably neither
company is very happy about it which is exactly what a monopolist would feel
like that mustache guy they just want to pass go all the time
the news seems to bode well for epic's lawsuits against apple and google as
introducing an alternate payment processor was the very reason that
fortnight got kicked off of the iOS and Android app stores
naturally tim sweeney tweeted in celebration but then kind of made it
weird by changing a jfk coat to i am a korean and i mean
we're happy for you tim microsoft is all business and no
silliness and accordingly they won't be launching Windows 11 on november 11th
but on october 5th probably because november 11th is veterans day and that
would be kind of weird yeah i realize that now yeah but one of the operating
systems killer features support for Android apps will not be there at launch
and it will come a bit
like later maybe vibes with this what is this yeah microsoft come on
i don't care too much about Android apps but like give me halo a co-op if you
want to try it out ahead of time you could always sign up for the insider
preview as long as your pc isn't too old because microsoft is unceremoniously
taking all their laptops off the preview and asking them to reinstall Windows 10.
what is this ageism yeah can we sue calling the lawyers i'm too old to
support Windows 11. and twitch has endured a small exodus of
some of its top creators with dr lupo and tim the tatman announcing they're
leaving amazon's streaming platform thanks to new exclusivity deals with
youtube gaming interestingly the two streamers announcements coincide with a
day off twitch campaign during which some streamers are temporarily
boycotting the site to protest its inadequate response to wave of hate
raids where groups of viewers coordinate harassment against particular people
sounds hateful yeah it does streamers saw a spike in the raids following
twitch's edition of 350 tags meant to classify creators gender sexual
orientation race and other characteristics why did they add that
the tags were meant to boost the profiles of marginal streamers okay okay
that makes sense but instead it seems like the go down in history as another
nice thing we just cannot have we're running out of nice things here yeah
we are ah riley said i was hosting this episode
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today it's smart quick bits i bet you can't listen to just one
because they're so quick thanks to an image of a leaked presentation slide a rumor has begun
circulating that AMD is planning to release this radion rx 6900xtx
an extra x which would theoretically be
faster than the rx 6900 xt and NVIDIA's
rtx 39 wow that was a lot of letters and
numbers and this wouldn't be that far-fetched
given another rumor that NVIDIA is working on a 30-90 super but the image
came from a pretty unknown account and other leakers said they haven't seen
anything of that sort so don't keep your exes x for this to be true i always keep
my x's x x sex baby
netflix rolled out a test for its gaming service this week letting users in
poland play two existing stranger things games on Android for free now those same
games are being removed from pc storefronts including steam gog and epic
game store seemingly because netflix will include it on his platform in some
way oh that's way better what much rather play who wants that
as a reminder so far netflix gaming does not involve streaming games the pull and
test lets users click a button in the netflix app which redirects them to the
play store where they can download the stranger things Android games for free i
don't know there could be a gaming service that's lamer than stadia but they did it yay
good job netflix western digital fresh off controversy
involving some surreptitious swapping of nand modules on their ssds has now added
an embedded nand flash drive to some of its hard drives which will apparently
result in higher capacity and speed without resorting to smr design that
they also snuck into their hard drives
at the very least we have to give them kudos for telling
the public about the extra chips on this one turns out they're just doritos oh
i'd love to get doritos for my hard drive on their storage yeah chips with
my chips or my music on this tortilla chip
trusted apple leaker ming chi quo is predicting that the iphone 13 which
apple is expected to unveil in september will be available to make satellite
calls and texts although sources indicate this ability may be intended
for emergency calls only but what if there's a special satellite and i miss
it and i just want to check in
i would like to be able to like talk to satellites at my phone that would be cool what's up satellite yeah how's your
day and AMD is trying to get ahead of the game by filing a patent for a processor
architecture that will use quantum teleportation to make quantum computers
more reliable if you don't know what quantum teleportation is it involves
entangling particles so that their states mirror each other so they're not
teleporting people but rather information which in the old days is
just what we call talking that's boring
it's actually pretty cool i'm teleporting information to you don't get
stuck in the old days come back on friday for more tech news that way
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